A ton of Brics

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SmallBlue launches the first ever Bric... investing in Borneo, Rwanda, the Isle of Wight and Chippenham

"So what do you make of all this interest in so-called 'Bric' investments?" I asked the chairman of the insignificantly-sized investment group SmallBluePlanet as we met for a pint of Ions Back In The Fire at The Diminutive Golfer. Granted, it was a bit more highbrow than some of my opening gambits, but we had been joined by SmallBlue's multi-lingual, multi-passported emerging markets fund manager, José-Fredo Da Biggbadd-Wolff. José-Fredo is quite an interesting character and not just because he is the only fund manager at SmallBluePlanet to have succeeded in remaining employed by the chair...

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